Alert San Diego

County of San Diego

About this app

Formerly SD Emergency. Official emergency information and alerts for San Diego County.

Be prepared for any emergency with the new Alert San Diego app, the official mobile companion to AlertSanDiego.org. Developed by the County of San Diego's Office of Emergency Services, this app is your all-in-one tool for emergency, preparedness, and recovery information, with official information from public officials.

Key features
• Targeted emergency alerts: Sign up for call, text, or email alerts for threats impacting your registered location, such as your home, workplace, or family address.
• Push Notifications: Allow push notifications to get notified of new emergencies and important updates.
• Live emergency map: View an interactive map with near real-time updates on active emergencies, including evacuation zones, shelters, road closures, and localized hazards.
• Preparedness Information: Learn how to create a Personal Disaster Plan and an Emergency Kit to ensure you and your family are prepared for any emergency.
• Recovery resources: After a major disaster, find vital information and resources to help you and your family recover.
• Accessible updates: Receive emergency updates in accessible formats, including American Sign Language (ASL) videos with accompanying English voice and text.

Important: Register your cell phone number to receive targeted phone, text, and email alerts from the emergency notification system in your registered area. Your registration is confidential and used only for emergency purposes.
Download the Alert San Diego app today and stay informed, prepared, and safe.

Ratings and reviews

It used to be awesome... But over the past 6-8mo or so, I've realized it's NOT sending me push-notifications or Emergency-Alert Audible Notifications any longer, even though from what I can tell in my App Settings- this function appears to be Enabled?! So NOW- this app's great for Reference of Emergency Situations that you ALREADY KNOW happened/are underway... But the major purpose of this App is to ALERT/NOTIFY you of an Emergency Situation taking place because you DON'T already know about it!!

I like the app, but it consumes too much internal storage (830MB) for data. I recognize the usefulness of having data stored locally on the device for an emergency when mobile data networks may be down or overloaded, but the app needs an option to store its data on the SD card.

great information to have, BUT a single high pitched beep from my phone is hardly an alert to an emergency. PLEASE change the alert sound to an option to select the sound and the duration of the sound. That way you'll have my attention when a fire is headed my way! (Do you read these reviews?)